Hull captain Curtis Davies has told his plummeting team that they need to start taking points off their relegation rivals.

After some impressive results early in their first season back in the top flight, the Tigers have won just one of their last ten Premier League games and now find themselves only two points off the drop zone.

On Saturday, they travel to Sunderland who, under new boss Gus Poyet, have lifted themselves from last place at Christmas to 14th - one spot below Hull - while also reaching next month's League Cup Final.

Davies said: “We’ve played a lot of those higher teams away. Now it’s also time to start winning the away games against the lower teams.

“We need to affect them. We need to start affecting the teams around us and make sure they don’t take points off us.”